Windows Server 2016 Datacenter Edition is the newest version of the highly virtualized software
built for private and hybrid cloud environments. The innovative
software concentrates on providing the highest level of flexibility
and control to businesses in need of a centralized solution for
managing cloud-ready workloads with more ease. Windows Server 2016
also helps to prevent malicious attacks against your system with a
strengthened security suite that also detects any suspicious
activity as a preventative measure. Users can change existing
applications into cloud-ready solutions and help developers to
create new ones using containers, microservices, and Nano Server.
Your datacenter can be run with an automated and resilient
operating system and will have access to many of the same
cloud-efficient features found in Microsoft Azure atacenters.

Computers that run Windows Server 2016 must include a storage
adapter that is compliant with the PCI Express architecture
specification. Persistent storage devices on servers classified as
hard disk drives must not be PATA. Windows Server 2016 does not
allow ATA/PATA/IDE/EIDE for boot, page, or data drives.

Features

Some of the new features added to Windows Server 2016 Datacenter
include: